Antimony

Past Producer in Mono county in California, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10031453
MRDS ID M010269
Record type Site
Current site name Antimony
Related records 10164281

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.55599, 38.68297 (WGS84)
Relative position 25 MILES SOUTH OF MINDEN, NEVADA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mono(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Topaz Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

West Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mono

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 022E 27,28 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.55599, 38.68297

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1936 - 1947

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • SMELTER RECOVERY 18 % PB, 26 OZ AG/TON AND 0.57 OZ. AU/TON. TOTAL PRODUCTION NOT KNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 INCLINED SHAFTS, 3 TUNNELS, 2 25 - FT DRIFTS AND OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GOODWIN, J.G., 1957 , LEAD AND ZINC IN CA.; CA. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 53 , NOS. 3 & 4 ; DIV. OF MINES, P. 554

  • Deposit

    ECONOMIC MINERAL MAP NO.7

  • Production

    GOODWIN, J.G., P. 554

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TUNNEL SYMBOL IN SEC. 28, NEAR E1/4 COR.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1978 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.